unsaying

Example Sentences

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And then they unsay it, and they keep unsaying it, breaking their own rules over and over again.

From The Guardian • May 13, 2017

"I unsay every word," said Mr. Merridew, for the second time, and more pointedly than ever; for, even in his really generous emotion, he could not help feeling that it was unsaying a great deal.

From Denis Dent A Novel by Hornung, Ernest W.

I gave him no chance of unsaying with grace or credit what he could not fail to regret that he had said.

From A Great Emergency and Other Tales by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty

Highness has a manner to-night which disconcerts me by its novelty; a saying things and then unsaying them; suggesting and then, somehow, treading down the suggestion like a spark of your lightning.

From Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua by Lee, Vernon

Time and again in her heart of hearts had she planned how those unsaying words should be said, and said just as soon as ever he came, but he came rather soon and suddenly.

From A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike by King, Charles